The Birth-Mark: Essays

by Susan Howe

Book Overview

In this classic, groundbreaking exploration of early American literature, Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters and editors eager for settlement. Howe approaches Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville and Emily Dickinson as a fellow writer--her insights, fierce and original, are rooted in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811224651
• ISBN13: 9780811224659
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"